Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6edecb42aa57d9ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 82b47ddd6f5fd93dec1e2d22a16f9382 SHA-1: 9485a60a9783a039f714455f540b62c68a272831 SHA-256: 6edecb42aa57d9ee8ce799d768e290a906651e27896fddec12ed635077de7909
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a spearphishing attachment or malicious link attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://digireg.dk/upload/42037185230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5575a16a32---sonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/legizifaguwaxomebipurugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/gujosawejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-19/20210719014915182007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/79715480015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89562046891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/zukafekasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/femapekeduwowuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/vexobefipazivegixuzobimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/fejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/62714325260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077551cc9e4f---16170524538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e8a8dead8a34bb88dabfe2623242f95/livatokugadurugisupuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac14b1d9122---3047941808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/wigunuzikanikedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8k49noih1ctk5tqlgk36j8c2/8231221911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/19810538678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a03e0957f2123d877ad6f5833dac1f0/fipoviwapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/punevevufawugidurinevezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847be17dce0---79315931213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210729_225843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pejuxurepurozevalorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhajf96n1k76vm844uvrri6e71/wadudizutusasegenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=electronics+principles+and+applications+9th+edition+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A1 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 48109061dfcfbbcdbd4ff9eaf2890878bc742fd100b4c83e1b3a01adc2b1f8d3
font_01_sfnt_off000102a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A4 17028 bytes
SHA-256: a12e05e609502555a38ccf8585af0e92ab938b6134e39f94ac01066c5acf7d6f
font_02_sfnt_off00012f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1